A New York congresswoman recognized for left-wing opposition to her fellow Democrats is asking on Big Apple Mayor Eric Adams to resign after a sequence of raids on his high aides and others in his internal circle in reference to a federal investigation.
“I do not see how Mayor Adams can continue governing New York City,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X.
Ocasio-Cortez's district consists of components of two New York City boroughs. The tweet marked the primary time she took a swing at her hometown mayor on the platform in additional than a 12 months. In April 2023, she not directly criticized his help for a brand new contract for metropolis police.
“The flood of resignations and vacancies are threatening gov function,” she wrote. “Nonstop investigations will make it impossible to recruit and retain a qualified administration.”
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks through the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu by way of Getty Images)
Adams issued a blistering response to the socialist congresswoman, slamming her as a fraud in an announcement to Fox News Digital.
“For anyone who self-righteously claims people charged with serious crimes should not be in jail to now say that the second Black mayor of New York should resign because of rumors and innuendo — without even a single charge being filed — is the height of hypocrisy,” Adams mentioned. “I am leading this city to protect it from exactly that kind of phony politics. The people of this city elected me to fight for them, and I will stay and fight no matter what.”
Earlier this month, New York City Police Commissioner Edward Caban turned the newest Adams ally to resign. Separately, an Adams staffer was fired following accusations that he tried to extort cash from a Brooklyn automobile proprietor with assist from Caban's twin brother.
In an announcement, Caban's attorneys Russell Capone and Rebekah Donaleski instructed Fox News Digital that the previous commissioner would cooperate with investigators and that he's not the goal of the federal probe himself.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams attends a press convention on gun violence on June 26, 2023, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Rumors of a pending resignation have swirled for days following raids on Caban and his twin brother, a security guide. James Caban is going through an investigation for allegedly leveraging his NYPD connections to guard nightclubs from police scrutiny.
Federal brokers served warrants on three different high-ranking Adams aides on the identical day because the Cabans — First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Philip Banks III and Timothy Pearson, a former NYPD official turned mayoral adviser.
Last 12 months, federal brokers seized Adams' gadgets as he was leaving an occasion in Manhattan and raided the house of one among his high fundraisers. Adams has denied any wrongdoing, however confirmed final month he had acquired a subpoena from federal prosecutors and mentioned he and his crew are cooperating.
New York Mayor Eric Adams, flanked by his Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, left, and Ingrid Lewis-Martin, speaks throughout his weekly press convention at City Hall. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service by way of Getty Images)
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“For the good of the city, he should resign,” Ocasio-Cortez added Wednesday.
Winnie Greco, one other Adams aide, was additionally raided in reference to a marketing campaign fundraising investigation.
New York Mayor Eric Adams and Police Commissioner Edward Caban attend a information convention at 1 Police Plaza in New York City on April 3. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)
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Adams appointed Caban because the NYPD's first Hispanic commissioner in July 2023.
He has been changed by Interim Commissioner Tom Donlon, a retired FBI agent who beforehand led the National Threat Center and oversaw the Terrorism Watch List.
Fox News' Michael Dorgan and CB Cotton contributed to this report.
